No Gods No Mayors

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Aug 7, 2025 • 1h 12min

Isaltino Morais

This week, Riley brings us the man who wrote the book on being the mayor in Portugal, the municipal Peronist himself, Isaltino Morais.Municipal meeting minutes include: Eric Adams Radmilk, Minot Grigio, Things The Hosts Know About Portugal, No Traumatic Stress At All, jostled tiles, legal tiki-taka, vast and trunkless leg day, and DaughterHelp.Join our Patreon to get DOUBLE THE MAYORS.Stay tuned to the end to hear Municipal Rodeo from ME REX! Check them out on tour in Bristol, London, and Nottingham this September! https://linktr.ee/merexband(buy mattie's new book or come see her on book tour in Philadelphia (tonight! 6pm at Partners & Son Comics) or August 20th in NYC.)
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Jul 31, 2025 • 11min

PREVIEW: Robert Briscoe

This week, Nova’s the mayor and we’re talking about Robert Briscoe, the Forrest Gump of 20th century Ireland and most easily radicalized man in the history of the world.Municipal meeting minutes include: Getting handed a shamrock from a Cossack, Irish Serious Man, scamming Mr. Woolworth, Costume Party Theme: Today's Newspaper, staring at a cop's belt, solidarity (derogatory), and Don't Read the Last 20% of This Book.Subscribe to The Patreon to listen to the whole thing! We'll be back with a free episode next week.Get Mattie's book! Come see her on Tour!
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Jul 24, 2025 • 1h 5min

Byron Brown

This week, we've got a NEWS PEG! Wow. Mattie brings the crew Buffalo's longest-ever-serving mayor, Byron Brown.Municipal meeting minutes include: Nova’s gas corner, the boy mayor of LEGO “Castle”, finding out that you’re 5’9” (hoops again), Fallout: Niagara, In This House We Believe?, OK Campaign, and The Center-Left IMF.Pre-order Mattie's book or see her on tour, this coming week!Join us next week on The Patreon.
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Jul 17, 2025 • 10min

PREVIEW: Rob Ford, Part III ?

This week, we're covering the Netflix documentary "Trainwreck: Mayor of Mayhem," their Rob Ford documentary. Did you know this guy Rob Ford invented lying and demonizing the media? Crazy.Head on over to the Patreon to listen!
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Jul 10, 2025 • 1h 21min

Vít Jedlička (with Eleanor Janega)

This week, Riley goes Mattie mode and profiles a guy that is technically a mayor but kind of not really, Liberland's Vít Jedlička. And we're joined by Medievalist but more importantly Czechia expert, our pal Dr. Eleanor Janega!Municipal meeting minutes include: What if something good happened?, Fascist Nonna, Fungal Trump, Are women bourgeoise?, Consolation Island, Outer Tax Heaven, Secretary of the Interior (of the hut), Suicide by boar, and The Floating Man.Join the Patreon for just 5 bucks a month and get double the mayors!Check out Eleanor on We're Not So Different and her new show, Welcome to the Crusades!See Mattie on book tour, and pre-order Simplicity, or else!
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Jul 3, 2025 • 10min

PREVIEW: Grafton New Hampshire

This week we've got another one of Mattie's flights of fancy: Is this utopian community "a mayor"? (Yes.) Anyway, huddle up for a cautionary tale...it's statist to not listen!Municipal meeting minutes include: Experiencing Courtlessness, what if there was no mayor at all, was the 19th century grink there, libertarian outreach, chompers at dawn, donkey of the week, good gulch, and bear patrol but real.East coast and midwest USA, catch Mattie on book tour! Or preorder Simplicity.This is a preview of an episode on our Municipal Benevolent Feed. Five bucks a month gets you access!
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Jun 26, 2025 • 1h 21min

Carolyn Goodman

Would you care for a normal olive? This week, we’re covering Oscar Goodman’s Ptolemy II, his wife Carolyn. Mayoral Information Corner: Precious Bumpkins, Indianapolin vs fire, unhalled comrade, elected wife, Bucket of Gin O’Clock, startling Riley, rating the mantis, miniature iron dome, boy this lady stinks, 1-800-COP-FFS, and the best interview ever recorded. Get more mayors over on our Patreon!Catch Mattie on Book Tour!
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Jun 19, 2025 • 11min

PREVIEW: Larry Hand

This week on the Mayoral Benevolent Feed: After a few Items(!) we watch the 1996 documentary Rats in the Ranks about the Leichhardt Council mayoral elections in Sydney Australia's suburbs. It's Uncut Gems but for one fitted-out Aussie politician.Municipal meeting minutes include: Back on the son beat, schrödinger’s boat, volcel Sy Abelman, bud wine, commiserations counselor!, and loading a man up with brill cream. Catch the entire ep on the Patreon!
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Jun 12, 2025 • 1h 25min

Oscar Goodman

This week, we're talking about the universe's happiest mayor, Oscar Goodman! Take this one personally. Municipal meeting minutes include: Indicted in battle. Walkin’ on the Son, A new immortal precept, B’nai brith for Las Vegas, d=Doing the hora with Lefty Rosenthal, Spaghetti mission, The strip is a Line, Another hooping mayor, Dry martinis and wet cigars, and No Nose’s Mob Meatballs.Point of order: Mattie rewatched Casino today and "the new strip" was extant in 1995 so the year was a little off when she said that. Sorry!Get on the municipal benevolent feed on our Patreon!
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Jun 5, 2025 • 11min

PREVIEW: Taron Margaryan with Sam Martirosyan

This week on the Mayoral Benevolent Feed we've got Producer Sam on the other side of the microphone! We're talking about former Yerevan mayor and lover of the number 7, Taron Margaryan.Municipal meeting minutes include: Gotham matriculates tonight Batman!, like taking land from a baby, putting the pope in a glass cube, a TTE (Time to Embattlement) Record, suing for my kickback, ILLGTTNCAR, a hot dog is a kind of column, and Gender Trouble.follow Sam on twitter or bsky!Listen to the whole episode over on our Patreon.

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